Neptune in Pisces - Our World turns Fabulous!

A new kind of cosmic energy has been released upon us just a few hours ago, as planet Neptune moved into Pisces! This is a momentous event because the sign of Pisces is the natural "domicile" of Neptune, meaning that in this sign Neptune finds a very fertile "soil", it feels totally unhindered and stimulated and expresses its full potential!


It takes roughly 165 years for Neptune to run through the 12 signs of the zodiac. So, the previous time the same event occurred (Neptune entered Pisces) the calendars were showing the year 1847! None of us was alive then so that s/he can tell the tale. And not only us but probably neither our great-great-grandfathers were alive back then. So, this Neptune in Pisces energy is totally new to our world. What I mean is that even Uranus' cycles are more familiar to us, as this planet runs through the whole zodiac in 84 years, almost in a three generations time span. So, most of us were not even born back in 1927 - the previous time Uranus had entered Aries - but a grandfather of ours might have narrated us the "spirit" of that period. But nobody has first-hand narrated us the Neptune in Pisces feel. It is a remote and somehow alien to us sensation that we have to experience now "ex Novo".

Actually, a vivid testimony of this Neptunian sensation we may find in the great novels written by two of the world's most illustrious authors: Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. Dicken's "A tale of two cities" and Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables" were written mostly under the spell of the previous Neptune in Pisces transit!

Neptune represents some very subtle, etheric and "esoteric" situations, situations that almost make no sense in our tangible, down to Earth, "dense" dimensions. Neptune is one of the three "soul planets" (the other two being Moon and Pluto), so the "Soul" is its main domain. And since this mysterious planet is considered the higher "octave" of Venus, Union is one of its fundamental concerns. But not the simple and "vulgar" kind of "union" between a man and a woman. Neptune's "Union" is much more profound, potent and subtle.

To give you an example, it is the mystic kind of "Union" that the spectators of a very touching movie experience the very moment they exit the theatre and look at each other, in a rather "conspiratorial" manner! In spite of our acutely "differentiated" external appearance, our souls innately know it - in their immense esoteric wisdom - that we are One! Thus, our souls are ever craving for such a kind of "mystical Union" experiences. Unfortunately, in our Era, we are somehow conditioned to become ever more consumeristic and individualistic, to follow a lifestyle that offers us very few "mystical union" chances. But as our souls cannot be truly "conditioned" by anyone, they are constantly longing for such situations - and this induces many people to resort to the one and only "Mystical Union remedy" that our modern lifestyle is promoting: drugs!

But why is this Neptunian "mystical Union" sensation so important after all? Because it lies at the very core of Universal Love! If Uranus urges us to love our fellow humans as our brothers then Neptune urges us to love them as intrinsic parts of our own selves! And nobody can truly Love his/her fellow human unless s/he experiences first this sort of mystical Union with his/her fellow human! We are talking here about "Universal Love", about "Empathy" and "Compassion"! And the main ingredient of all these states is the "mystical union" feel!

You see, deep in the nucleus of our brains we harbor a "wild animal", an animal eager to attack the people around us - even harm them! And ultimately, if we don't end harming the others, if we are not becoming totally insensitive to their suffering, mean or even evil to our fellow humans, it's not that much out of some code of ethics but rather out of this mysterious "empathy" sensation that we harbor deep in our souls! Seeing other people suffering paradoxically causes distress in (most of) us as if we were invisibly "connected" to those people and - to a certain extent - as if we, ourselves, were experiencing their suffering. Astrologically, this universal "empathy" stems out of the planet Neptune (and to a certain extent, out of the Moon, too).

Empathy is a quintessential element to our societies, an element that makes us human - and renders our societies civilized instead of "jungly" ones. So, now that Neptune enters Pisces the level of empathy among people will considerably rise. At the same time though, certain antithetical to empathy elements will become more prominent now - Neptune and Pisces are masters of duality - such as insensitivity, cruelty, injustice, contempt. A sorrowful - and somehow lethargic - sensation will prevail in us and a generalized and undefined desire for redemption will take us over - ever urging us to seek any kind of "redemptive experiences" (as in charitable activities, into paths of religious or metaphysical expiation, etc.) ...

All in all, with Neptune in Pisces we humans will become more "United", we will start loving more profoundly our fellow humans. But since Neptune in Pisces will somehow "de-materialize" our world (bringing to us humans a sort of disillusion for the material goods and the "secular" life in general - and eventually massive shortages of goods as well), I have the suspicion that a huge wave of poverty will spread across our planet in the next 15 years (till 2026, when Neptune will leave Pisces). And under poverty people indeed unite more willingly and profoundly.

By being though too much "united", "too close to each other" we run another Neptunian risk: the God of the oceans in the sign of Pisces might trigger in the next 15 years some major epidemics worldwide! In any case, new institutions and charities will be established in order to help the sick and weary. The watery element will become ever more prominent now, either through torrential rains, inundations, tsunami's or out of the mortal lack of it! A sensational discovery might be made at the depths of the sea. In addition, we might discover now some new "magic" properties of the plain water.

With Neptune in Pisces life will somehow take a "Fairy-tale" flavor, as we will start perceiving now certain new, "fabulous" dimensions of it! A new kind of "inebriating" (and confusing to some extent) energies will be released upon humanity! At times we will be feeling like we are slightly drunk or as if being in a sort of "limbo", living in a "vivid dream". Archetypal figures like the "Cinderella", the "villain", the "brave lad", the "mermaid" will start popping out more frequently in our everyday lives, creating in us a paradoxical feeling - as if we were parts of some Fairy-tale! We will attune to more sensitive frequencies and our emotions will be easily triggered, making us cry or laugh more frequently. Traits like melancholy, sorrow, victimization, martyrdom will become prominent and even fashionable in our societies.

Romantic Love will take its revenge now. The "what's your name again?" rather common question of the over-sexed previous era will become somehow "passe" now! Improbable as it seems, some people might even start singing serenades under their beloved person's balcony, like in old times.

The crucial "membrane" separating our earthy "reality" from the "ethereal" one will be "punctured",  the vast and mysterious Cosmos will start "pouring in" and all sorts of weird concepts, energies, even "entities" will penetrate our world. Angels, "angelic therapies", "psychic sessions", rituals to communicate with the "other dimensions" will become extremely fashionable. Escapism too. Some new and very fascinating visual means and arts (mostly of the popular kind) will be invented.

The spirit of the (rather dissipated by now, in my opinion) Piscean Era will be somehow revived in the next 15 years! For you to understand what I mean, just take a look at the sculptures below. They are some of the last classical statues ever made and they belong to two distinguished Byzantium citizens. They were made sometime in the 5th-century CE., - just at the time Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in Europe and the spirit of the Piscean Era was spreading all over Earth.

Actually, I have "snapshot" these images from John Romer's excellent documentary "Byzantium: the lost empire". So, while Romer is describing (in the text below) the new, different style of these statues he is at the same time describing certain attributes of the new spirit that Neptune in Pisces is about to unleash on humanity!

"At first glance, you might think these statues are just part of those usual old classical things hanging around museums, strutting up their stuff... But they are not like that at all! They are new, different. Something else is going on here... These people are pensive, sad and rather wise. Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space that each one of us must occupy. And from that space, they look outwards, from the Soul towards the Heavens..."

Thomas Gazis

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